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Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking. (lemmy.zip)
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Imagine if we prepared for Covid back during influenza. Also we should have realize smoking is bad for you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Our brains are physiologically wired for a longer term than any other brain in existence.

Human minds are the only thing we know of that has any awareness of the future. So on the scale of short term to long term, humans are the longest-term thinkers there are.